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Environmentalists, What Are You Asking From Dedmoroz Lenin For Earth Day This Year?

Tomorrow is Earth Day. It is also Lenin's birthday. That's not coincidence. The leader of...

How Ancel Keys Went From MAHA Hero To MAHA Villain

If a lot of the food and health claims you read and hear today seem like things left over from...

Are Baseball Pitchers Faster Today?

On September 7, 1974, pitching for the California Angels, Nolan Ryan, known for his velocity, became...

Ground-Nesting Bee Populations Don't Get Publicity But They're Everywhere

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Mercury Astronaut: John Glenn Orbits Earth 50 Years Ago

Mercury Astronaut: John Glenn Orbits Earth 50 Years Ago

Feb 20 2012 | comment(s)

In the midst of CNN's non-stop coverage of a deceased singer whose biggest career hit was a cover of a Dolly Parton song, there may be a ray of rational sunlight shining down on a person worthy of our time; an accomplished military veteran, test pilot, Mercury astronaut and Senator named John Glenn.  50 years ago the 40-year-old Marine lieutenant sat atop a building-sized rocket stuffed with solid propellant and left the confines of Earth - backwards.
Science Academia Is Not Sexist,Though Maybe Motherhood Is

Science Academia Is Not Sexist,Though Maybe Motherhood Is

Feb 16 2012 | comment(s)

Despite claims by some of the more aggressive groups who attack science academia, women do not face a 'hostile' work environment because in some fields they are less than 50 percent or some other scientists are rude. Instead, they face a tough personal choice.

Getting tenure is hard.  The work load is tremendous.  More women than men tend to think it is not worth the effort and, if they have kids, that feeling becomes more so.  They are not rejecting science but they are opting for a higher quality of life.  Studies show that male scientists often wish they had made the same choice.
Eat Free Pancakes - Help Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals

Eat Free Pancakes - Help Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals

Feb 15 2012 | comment(s)

Good news for flapjack junkies.  For 15 hours on February 28th,  you can get some free pancakes at IHOP and raise some money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. It's National Pancake Day!
My Local School Is Up For A $100K STEM Grant From Samsung: Here Is How You Can Help

My Local School Is Up For A $100K STEM Grant From Samsung: Here Is How You Can Help

Feb 15 2012 | comment(s)

Samsung wants to give away a lot of money for STEM projects in local schools and we all probably agree that is a good thing.  But there is no such thing as a free lunch so they want to give it away to people who can mobilize the most people that care about science and kids.

Sutter Middle School in Folsom is one of those in the running so if you want to get more science and math to young people, let's give them a vote.

It isn't painless, you have to register an email address, but after that you can participate and...it's for the kids.
Directive For New E.U. Science Advisor Anne Glover: Make Europeans Less Anti-Science

Directive For New E.U. Science Advisor Anne Glover: Make Europeans Less Anti-Science

Feb 15 2012 | comment(s)

Americans of a particular cultural and political persuasion like to regard Europeans as 'more' scientific because surveys reveal that they say 'yes' to the appropriate buzzwords.  Not so, even to European scientists. Europeans are instead far more distrustful and dismissive of science than most Americans; they are precautionary principle-obsessed.

Scottish microbiologist Anne Glover would like to change that.  She just took office in Brussels as the first European chief scientific adviser and her first goal is to get people information in the hopes that they will stop listening to advocacy groups and accept science overall the same way they do politically charged topics like climate change. 
Genetic Modification Plus Big Pharm Equals Anti-Science Hippie Meltdown

Genetic Modification Plus Big Pharm Equals Anti-Science Hippie Meltdown

Feb 15 2012 | comment(s)

What's the one thing that could make anti-science progressives dislike genetic modifications and medicine even more than they do now?  Putting them both together.